New Delhi, July 20 -- Panama's Foreign Minister Javier Martinez-Acha Vasquez on Monday stated that Panama is making a concerted diplomatic push to recruit India as a strategic partner to safeguard the absolute neutrality of the Panama Canal while rejecting global rhetoric.

Speaking with ANI during his official state visit, the Foreign Minister emphasised Panama's absolute resolve to safeguard its independent foreign policy and national sovereignty through proven governance of the Panama Canal.

"The canal by itself presents the best defense for the sovereignty of Panama within the canal: efficiency, responsibility, and most important, the security with which the canal has been managed by Panamanians in this century," Martinez-Acha Vasque...